The metro version of Firefox which was scheduled to ship on December 10 has now slipped to January 2014. If everything goes well, Firefox 27 will bring a new Windows 8 optimised version featuring a beautiful and modern user interface. Apart from a tile-based Firefox Start experience, Firefox 27 Aurora has support for Windows 8 touch and swipe gestures, Windows Share integration, Firefox Sync and Snapped and Fill views. There is also support for WebGL for compelling 3D graphics and asm.js which enables developers to port high performance C++ games to the web. Also Firefox 27 Aurora allows you to run more than one service at a time with Firefox SocialAPI, thus enabling you to recieve notifications, chat and more from multiple integrated services. Here are the Aurora Release Notes for the full list of changes.
- NEW: Windows 8 optimized Aurora is ready for use (seeblog post)
- NEW: You can now run more than one service at a time with Firefox SocialAPI, allowing you to receive notifications, chat and more from multiple integrated services
- CHANGED: Added support for SPDY 3.1 protocol and deprecated SPDY 2
- DEVELOPER: Experimental support for CSS sticky positioning (Aurora only - demo)
- DEVELOPER: Ability to reset style sheets using 'all:unset'
- DEVELOPER: SVG: Added support for transform-origin (see 923193)
- DEVELOPER: You can now choose to deobfuscate javascript in the debugger (see 762761)
- DEVELOPER: Added support for scrolled fieldsets (see 261037)
- DEVELOPER: Implemented allow-popups directive for iframe sandbox, enabling increased security (see 766282)
- DEVELOPER: CSS cursor keywords -moz-grab and -moz-grabbing have been unprefixed (see 880672)
- DEVELOPER: Added support for ES6 generators in SpiderMonkey (see blog post)
- HTML5: Dashed line support on Canvas (see 768067)
- FIXED: Get Azure/Skia content rendering working on Linux (see 740200)
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